Definition
No mental weaknesses, character defects, or other significant flaws belonging to.
Origins
A litotes suggesting one is not torpid enough to have flies settle.
In Context
- ""You're jest about the very woman I'm looking for, miss. Lithe—that's what I call you. I kin put you in the way of making your pile, I kin. This is a bonâ-fide offer. No flies on my business!""
- "I give you my word that there are no flies on his personal integrity, if that's what you mean."
- ""He knows what we want, you bet" he whispered. "No flies on that preacher. I like him. I like any man who can do things without a diagram and directions for using.""
- "GERMAN. Wait! You are a young people. AMERICAN. That is so; there are no flies on us."
- ""I see," I said. He cocked his head toward me. There weren't any flies on Alf. He had caught more in my tone than I had realized was there."
- ""WestJet is tightly run, well managed, there are no flies on those guys," said Harry Gow, a board member of the Canadian Association of Airline Passengers."
See Also
- and no flies